For Families
Play & Learn: In Gallery, At Home, & Outside!
Our next free Family workshops will be in the school Easter holiday break. Click here to book.
We are delighted to welcome back Notts LGBTQ+ Families who are running another social event in our studio space to celebrate the Spring season. Click here for more info and to book.
We are Wonderlings! Our Early Years sessions are back in March. If you have a little one, bring them along to our relaxed free play, sensory sessions. Click here to book, limited spaces.
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If you are visiting our exhibitions, then don't miss out on our Family Explorer Resources and our Sensory Bags to use around the building to support during your visit, available in reception.
Check out the Toast Café at Blend Contemporary. A fantastic sensory friendly menu for small children, suitable for a range of needs and price ranges (starts at 30p!). Click here to see the childrens menu featuring the Toast Café.
Get to know the people who run the show, our Play & Learn Team (we all know its you really!). Find out a little about them and what they get up to. Click here.
Pick up your map from our reception and join in the Robin Hood's Adventure Trail by It's in Nottingham, a wonderful and free city-centre mission for you and your family. Click here for all the info.
Take a look at our other activities below, or all our past ones are here, there's lots to keep you busy.
We'd love to hear what you think. Who knows, you could join our team of kid creatives!
Your Visit
To prepare you for your visit see our, Access and Facilities information, and information on Getting Here.
- Our family activities are held in our large ground floor room, called The Space.
- Find out about our Play and Learn facilitators before you arrive, Getting to know us: The Play & Learn Team
- There is a designated sensory area in these workshops.
- Adult and child noise reducing headphones are available on request.
- We have a Changing Places facility.
- There are family toilet seats, and step stools in our toilets to assist the little ones.
- We are a Breastfeeding Welcome venue.
- All our Play & Learn Facilitators hold a current DBS certificate.
- All our Play & Learn Facilitators have regular safeguarding training.
- We have staff on duty who are First Aid at Work, and Paediatric First Aid, trained.
- We are a member of the Family Arts Campaign and part of the local Nottingham Network group with our cultural friends.
- Find out about our current exhibitions click here
Entry
Entry to our exhibitions and our family activities are free.
Our Gallery Assistants are on hand to support a happy and safe environment. Please help by listening to their guidance and let them know if you need any assistance or guidance during your visit.
We ask for you not to take food and drink inside the exhibitions, however you are more than welcome to have your snacks and drinks if attending our Family Activities in The Space.